Technical News Office –Last month, WhatsApp had banned over 85 lakh accounts in India. The Meta-owned platform permanently bans suspicious and reported accounts and shares the information in its special reports. WhatsApp said it banned more than 16,000,000 accounts “proactively,” meaning those accounts were blocked before a user reported a policy violation. Earlier in August, the platform had banned over 84.58 lakh accounts. WhatsApp claims to detect abuse at three stages of the account lifestyle, firstly at the time of registration, secondly during messaging and thirdly in response to negative comments.
In India, WhatsApp bans millions of accounts every month as per IT. In its latest report (November), the platform indicates having banned 8,584,000 accounts in September. The platform said that of these, 1,658,000 accounts were proactively banned before complaints were received from users. According to the social media platform’s monthly compliance report with the new IT rules 2021, WhatsApp received 8,161 complaints from the country and 97 recorded as ‘actioned’. , which means WhatsApp has taken corrective action. WhatsApp also revealed that it had received two orders from the country’s grievance appeal committee and had complied with both.
While WhatsApp allows its users to report accounts, the platform also uses an abuse detection system on the platform, which can proactively detect policy violations. As per existing rules, WhatsApp receives complaints from users, which are sent by email to [email protected] and by mail sent to the Complaints Officer in India. Let us tell you that 8,458,000 WhatsApp accounts were banned between August 1, 2024, and August 31, 2024. At the time, the platform claimed that 1,661,000 of these accounts were actively banned.
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